Engineering, Leadership, and Life

I write about software engineering, leadership, and the judgment built through messy systems, team decisions, mistakes, and curiosity beyond work.

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Nobody is Thinking Anymore

Everyone works in AI circles. There's a specification at least halfwritten by AI. There's a piece of code 80% written by AI. There's a strategy document 60% written by AI. If ev...

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The Void Job

More than a decade ago, I was working on a job scheduler similar to Airflow. We called it Woodsy internally. At first, it was quite simply an application that only uploaded CSV...

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What Does Retirement Look Like?

I find myself thinking about retirement a lot recently, especially when talking to family members. I also don’t think about retirement at the age of 60+. I have been following d...

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There May Be Nobody There

I’ve encountered a new acronym that I immediately fell for. AI;DR. Now, it means artificial intelligence, did not read. Why does this sound good, though? People are protesting t...

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The SDLC Was Designed for Humans

I was doing research on what to build next in the AI world. I’ve done a few hobby projects that have gone nowhere. I was fishing for the next. I was looking for an interesting i...